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Ask a Jew

Yael Bar tur, secular sinner, and Chaya Leah Sufrin, pious Haredi, ask each other the hard questions, from Torah to Tinder askajew.substack.com

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01:04:50

ASK A JEW (46): tle: The Swimsuit Edition (Or: No...

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2023/01/11

Much like the 90s sitcoms that made us the women we are today, this week’s episode starts out with talks about nudity and boyfriends and ends with a heartwarming message about something or other. Also:*The Yad Vashem food court review.* Israeli dogs aren't cute.* Chaya Leah is baffled by thongs. And bikinis. * Yael does a mitzvah. * Sometimes you just shouldn’t believe in yourself.* Asian and Jewish super-babies.*Chat GPT has a Jew problem.We also answer to your listener questions about marrying

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01:19:45

ASK A JEW (45): All I Want for Christmas Is Jews

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2022/12/22

Two episodes a week? It must be some kind of non-denominational holiday season miracle!For this episode, we got a Rabbi who’s an expert on Christmas music. No, really. David Komorovsky is a rabbi in Canton, Ohio. Growing up in the Midwest with a Jewish community the size of a high school football team, Rabbi David amassed an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Goy, including our peoples guilty pleasure: Christmas music.We talk to Rabbi David about the age old antisemitic trope that Jews are behind

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00:48:12

ASK A JEW (44): I Ain't Sayin' She a Gelt Digger

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2022/12/20

Happy Chanukah! If you don't know, Chanukah is an 8-day holiday in which Jews around the world celebrate the miracle of chocolate-covered gold coins.During this episode, Yael Jew-splains the holiday to a mortified Chaya Leah, who issues one or two corrections. We talk about playing sports in the nude (it's a Greek thing, you wouldn't understand), Christmas envy, and holidays blues. Chaya Leah wonders how Yael doesn't fall into deep depression over the holidays, and maybe vice versa. We talk about

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01:40:16

"It's the worst time ever to be a Jew - except for...

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2022/12/09

Best friend of the Jews and righteous among the podcasters, Michael Moynihan of The Fifth Column is our special guest this week. We feel especially blessed to interview our goyfriend (in person!) since The Fifth Column sort of gave birth to Ask A Jew, though no one really takes responsibility (think Three Men and a Baby).We spend 90 precious minutes holding hands around the small table in the studio covering a wide range of topics like antisemitism, the holocaust, and trashy bars in BostonWe also

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01:30:22

Ask a Jew (43): Jews Can't Chill

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2022/11/28

Welcome to our two-part anniversary show! With Yael preparing to leave the homeland and Chaya Leah coming off the high of her son's Bar Mitzvah, we discuss cute holocaust survivors, how fun it is to ignore the latest anti-semitism viral thing, and make a passionate case for why Taylor Swift is the Israel of the music industry.On the second part, you will hear an excelled interview with David Bernstein of The Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, about his new book, Woke Antisemitism. Sadly Yael drops

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01:25:41

ASK A JEW (41): Jewish Dominatrix in Berlin

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2022/11/04

What do Orthodox Jews and a Dominatrix have in common? Leather, of course!In this special episode, we interview an Israeli/German BDSM Queen Dasa Hink, and yes - we go here, there and everywhere. Frankly, she had us at historical role play scenarios.We talk with Dasa about being Jewish in Europe, the banality of being a sex worker, Hugo Boss Nazi uniforms, German guilt, and something kind of adorable called a "broken ankle fetish."For our kosher listeners - this does get a little spicy, but nothing

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01:12:51

ASK A JEW (40): Leave the Cookie, Take the Foreskin

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2022/10/24

Are you a left wing anti-semite? A right wing anti-semite? This episode has something for everyone!We are back after our little Jewish holiday hibernation: Yael tells us about her time in Africa (which was just like the Lion King) and Chaya Leah is recovering from making 200 meatballs and 1,4000 challahs. We talk about Kanye, depression, graveyards full of foreskins, and how we're all fu**ed if we lose our sense of humor. We also get to some listener questions, which you can send to

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01:07:44

ASK A JEW (39): Sorry, Not Sorry

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2022/10/05

The Yom Kippur special extravaganza!Just as the girls are about to shut their pie holes for 25 hours (to abstain from eating, not talking) they meet to beg your forgiveness. Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.comEmail us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Want to help us grow? Rate and review us 5 stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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00:55:14

ASK A JEW (38): Rosh Hashanenigans, from Adam Levine...

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2022/09/28

Let's party like it's 5783!!What's worse: Rosh Hashanah services or New Year's eve in Times Square? Also, is it Hasidic Jew migration season? Turns out they have some days off where they're allowed to do things, which explains why they are in bloom in city's parks and zoos. It's a beautiful sight. Also: Cooking for the holidays: a great Rebettzen vs. a Hot Mess. Chaya Leah is giving you the day off from work.Posting things on your Instagram about Iran is good. Yael doesn't like a documentary she

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01:02:12

ASK A JEW (37): Offensive Crayons

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2022/09/20

The girls welcome special guest Peter Shankman - tech entrepreneur and 5-time best selling author. Learn more about Peter hereDon't forget to sign up for our Substack newsletter and leave us 5-star reviews on Apple podcasts, you anti-semites! Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.comEmail us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Want to help us grow? Rate and review us 5 stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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01:10:47

ASK A JEW: The NY Times vs Hasidic Schools - Yiddish...

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2022/09/13

The girls welcome Yehoshua (Jason) Bedrick, fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy, and the man who literally WROTE THE BOOK on Yeshivas vs. New York. What follows is a friendly sparring over religious liberty, school choice, the importance of the English language, and swinging chickens around your head for spite. Follow Jason on Twitter @JasonBedrickRead his book Religious Liberty and Education Sign up for our emails here askajew.substack.com and send us your comments and

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01:03:24

ASK A JEW: One Star Review

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2022/09/07

Yael and ChayaLeah need therapy over their first negative review.Yael explains that ChayaLeah failed at meditation and should never try again.They also answer a listener's questions about seven days of post-wedding parties, and give legal opinions on religious liberty (considering that neither of us went to law school you can take it or leave it!)ChayaLeah describes visiting her dead grandparents and the Rebbe, while Yael explores doing triathlons and moving to Idaho. Joing the AAJ conversation on

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01:05:59

ASK A JEW: Moishe the Grouch

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2022/08/24

Please take a moment to like and review us, and also sign up to receive updates at https://askajew.substack.com/ It's a back to school special! Today we talk about the trauma inflicted by Sesame Street (spanning continents and age groups), Chaya Leah's business idea for a fat-person only gym, the holy site to all religions that is Target, and some podcast recommendations that will make you smarter. Plus, did Covid kill swinging? Also, what is swinging? At some point of course we get serious (not

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01:18:56

ASK A JEW: America Don't Worry, Israel is Behind You,...

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2022/08/16

Sign up for FREE on our Substack to stay in touch!Today we welcome national security correspondent, journalist and podcaster Eli Lake. Since we have such an esteemed guest with us, we spend plenty of time talking about reality tv, hot members of congress, and circumcisions. But also: why are people so obsessed with Israel, the ortho-woke, Salman Rushdie, Trump vs. Netanyahu, Kanye West, Zen and the art of dodging missiles, getting high in the bible, and much much more...Check out The Re-Education

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01:01:15

ASK A JEW: Little Miss Has No Confidence

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2022/08/10

In this episode of AAJ the girls go real deep on being confident and dealing with their shortcomings, all while blaming their moms (and the Holocaust) for their problems. They also discuss Yael's bday party that you weren't invited to, ChayaLeah's obsession with a Mormon family on Instagram, why Yael refuses to be saved by a podiatrist, and of course, cats that look like Hitler.Movie Rec: The Little Dictator Book rec: The Hitler Haggadah Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack

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00:57:20

ASK A JEW: The Naked and Afraid Archeologist

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2022/08/03

Yael and Chaya Leah debate the hot issues of the day, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to something happening to someone in China? (We weren't really paying attention). Also: how we define our Judaism (surprisingly the girls have very different answers for this), the best and worst airports, Chaya Leah gets fat-shamed by an (anti-semitic) TSA dog, Yael pulls off a major international smuggling operation at the age of 14, and much much more! Book recommendation: Spies of No Country, by Matti

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01:08:24

ASK A JEW: Better Sorry Than Safe

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2022/07/19

Chaya Leah and Yael welcome parenting guru and "America's Worst Mom", Lenore Skenazy. We talk about how to let your child grow freely (whatever the opposite of helicopter parenting is), deadly laundry baskets, anxious parents, and crappy kids. We talk about the importance of play, take some questions about screen time, and how parents and kids can slowly learn how to chill. This is a great conversation even if you don't have kids!Lenore is the president of Let Grow, the nonpartisan nonprofit

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01:14:07

ASK A JEW: Revenge of the Rabbi

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2022/07/12

Rabbi Aba Perlmutter is back! He wanted to talk about laughter, but being the serious pundits that we are, we went straight to abortions. The orthodox take might surprise you.We also get some spiritual guidance on how not to hate our fellow man (even though they can be really annoying), discuss why we should hold the center and love our country, why we don’t need a Jewish president (or king), Chaya Leah’s royal aspirations, what the rabbi thinks about Meghan and Harry, the Jewish view on divorce,

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00:56:52

ASK A JEW: The First Ladies

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2022/07/05

Your two favorite Jews and backup Jew Nancy Rommelmann are back to talk about everything but abortions!We start with a historical overview of the hotness of First Ladies, a certain Israeli first lady's fondness for cases of pink champagne (I mean, who amongst us?), the royal family, getting older (related), gardening (super related) and Jews surviving in the wild in Peru (the Jews are related to the host).Also:* The Holocaust weight loss challenge* Bodega guy - friend or bro? A crisis communications

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00:58:35

ASK A JEW: Every Cow Has a Hebrew Name

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2022/06/15

Chaya Leah manages to ruin Yael's surprise birthday party within the first 5 minutes of the episode. Yael talks about her vegan vacation in Northern Israel, and the girls discuss the Queen's birthday (like, *the* queen, not Yael), our giant fanbase in Kuwait, a listener question about Jewish quibbles over the letters S and T (as in Shabbas vs. Shabbat), new Hebrew words that just dropped, Yiddish is so hot right now, Starbucks makes America great, and even a talmudic take on Amber Heard and Johnny

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